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Covenant Transport, Chattanooga, Tenn., has announced its second quarter revenue increased 23% to a record $139.4 million. This number is up from last year at this time, when Covenant revenue hit $113.2. However, net income decreased 51% to $2.9 million from $5.9 million in the 1999 period

For several decades, many companies have used independent contractors for a wide variety of jobs (examples: truck drivers, limousine drivers, doctors, dentists, welders, painters, teachers, salesmen, drywallers, carpet installers, musicians, and nurses).
Most companies that use independent

Inland Kenworth has acquired Kenworth dealerships in Albuquerque and Farmington, NM, and will incorporate them into the Inland Group of truck and equipment dealerships based out of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

The most outstanding truckers in the country will have their chance to experience the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" beginning August 9 in New Orleans at the American Trucking Associations National Truck Driving Championships

Estimates of safety gains from revision of the hours of service rules are based on assumptions, not concrete data – and no one knows if those assumptions are reasonable.
That is the message to Congress from the General Accounting Office, the watchdog agency charged with critiquing how government does its work

Swift Transportation Co., a truckload carrier in Phoenix, Ariz., posted second quarter 2000 profits of $16.6 million on revenues of $316 million versus profits of $17.5 million on $262.6 million second quarter 1999

Yellow Corp. posted second quarter 2000 profits of $14.8 million, up from $13 million for the same period in 1999. Including a one-time after-tax gain at Yellow Freight, profits for the corporation were $23.5 million

The Bekins Company, a transportation, distribution, and relocation services company based in Hillside, Ill., has launched a corporate web site, Bekins.com, which is a centralized on-line information center providing access to its entire family of Operating Companies and services